[Asraelite]

There are sites which provide a temporary phone number for account verification for a small fee. I don't know any off the top of my head but they're easy to google. They often also accept crypto if you want to really retain anonymity. Effectively this means you pay $0.50 or whatever per extra account you want to have.

I really wish sites offered this option directly to customers so you wouldn't have to use these shady services. The primary purpose of phone verification is just to make the cost of creating a spambot greater than it's worth for the spammer, so they should have no probably simply accepting money instead of a phone number. The only service I know of that adopts this approach is Threema.

[ranger_danger]

Exactly zero of those sites provide non-voip SMS numbers, which are what's required by Discord and the like. They can detect when a number is really VoIP-based and they block all of them.

[Asraelite]

Are you sure? I'm not talking about the ones that offer a permanent number that can be reused, just those for one-off verification.

I've verified with them successfully on Discord multiple times.

[ev1]

There are plenty that provide non-voip numbers, but Discord will randomly challenge you later on if you do things like VPN heavily or block fingerprinting and if you can't access the number your account is toast.

[antifa]

> There are sites which provide a temporary phone number for account verification

Wouldn't those all become blocked, flagged, or "already used" pretty quickly?

[zardo]

They do, if you try to verify with one it's likely your account will be locked.